American Overseas Research Centers

The members of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers have centers in Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Iraq, Jordan, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Pakistan, Palestine, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Turkey, West Africa, and Yemen. They serve as a base for virtually every American scholar undertaking research in the host countries.

Services

American Overseas Research Centers offer many services to scholars including:

providing research libraries, technical services, and living accommodations;
serving as a base for field expeditions;
supporting publication of papers, books and serials, newsletters and information bulletins;
sponsoring joint scholarly projects and offering a program of conferences, lectures, seminars, concerts and exhibitions;
providing a place for contact and exchange between American researchers and their host-country counterparts as well as third-country colleagues working in the host-country;
liaison with host country governments and universities in obtaining access to research sources; and
monitoring and offering advice on the research climate in the host-country.

In addition to support for scholars, most centers make available their research to interested members of the U.S. and host-country publics, including primary and secondary schools. Most centers are consortia of U.S. universities and are governed by representatives of their member institutions. All centers are independently incorporated in the United States as private, not-for-profit organizations.

CAORC Member Centers

American Academy in Rome (AAR)
American Center for Mongolian Studies (ACMS)
American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR)
W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (AIAR)
American Institute of Afghanistan Studies (AIAS)
American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS)
American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS)
American Institute of Iranian Studies (AIIrS)
American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS)
American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS)
- Centre d'Etudes Maghrébines en Algérie (CEMA)
- Centre d'Etudes Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT)
- Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM)
American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS)
American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies (AISLS)
American Institute for Yemeni Studies (AIYS)
American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE)
American Research Center in Sofia (ARCS)
American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT)
American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA)
Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI)
Center for Khmer Studies (CKS)
Mexico-North Research Network (MNRN)
Palestinian American Research Center (PARC)
The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII)
West African Research Association (WARA)

Centers in Developing Status